The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1919, Page 10

{ ‘ ‘ ; TO BRING WILLARD DOWN TO RANGE FOR KNOCKOUT ——__——<+. Little Joe Walcott Never Had Any Trouble Bringing Bigger Men Down to His Size With Wallops in the Mid Section, and Jack | May Be Able to Use Same System on Big Jess—Many In- | stances Where Smaller Men Overcame Handicaps in Height With Body Blows. By Robert Edgren. Coperght, 1919, by the Prew Publishing Company (The New York ning Wart) OW Jess Willard’s backers are saying that little Jack Dempsey nevar | will be able to reach the giant’s chin—and therefore Juck has no| N chance to become champion | Which reminds me of one atter- | noou, many years ago, when I went| into Tom O'Rourke's Delevan to see, Joe Walcott, then famous as the| “Giant Killer” and the “Barbados | Demon.” Joo had knocked out Joe | Choynski and @ few other large! gentiomen with a certain amount of | Pugilistic class, and was annoying | Champion Jim Jeffries with chal-| lenges. I saw Joo and sized him up. Tie was anything but formidable in appearance. Ho was just an inch over five feet in height, and the most prominent thing about aim was a wide smile and two rows of gleaming white teeth. You hardly noticed, when he was in street clothes, that he had a sixteen-inch biceps and a sixteen- inca neck. —Mesvux tik volt a——eY Jeffries?” 1 said to the dusky midget. | Britt's sharp left hooks in the body “and how would you ever reach him|for two or three rounds, until he sud- oh?” denly found his eyesight blurred and with # punch?” his judgment of distance affected. | Walcott chuckled Britt knocked him out a round or two he said, “when I can't reach | jater, Battling Nelson depended upon | bring ‘em down to my/his “left scissors hook” to wear down | is Sen D mon heavier and bigger than himself | Yessir, An jest hits "em 10} Uo scidom had to reach for an up- (Joe used plain words) “and) | ‘em down so I can hit height. the belly” that brings em on the jaw.” Jack Dempsey may be able to fol- ponent’s chin to win a fight With all this precedent for “bring- rd down" Dempsey doesn't jespair of being able to hit the gigantic Oklahoma champion, | Johnson Couldn’t Hurt Jess. | Lots of other The body low Walcott's system. fighters have done it. Punch has settled many a champion-| phe only question to be settled, #0 | ship argument. Dempsey uses it/far as Willard’s endurance and! himself, and uses it as skilfully as|Dempsey’s punch are concerned, ts | any heavyweight ever seen in the|Willard's condition. — In the past Willard has been practically immune | to body punches as well aa to Punches on the chin. At Havana he | told me he wasn't worrying in the least about Johnson's body blows, as he was sure Johnson couldn't hurt him by hitting him in the body. He intended only fo take good caro of his Jaw—and that's what ho did during the fight. Johnson hit him several | heavy biows in the body without | distressing him in the least. ring. I have a vivid picture in my mind of the day I saw htm put long Fred Fulton out of the title chase. Me whipped a lightning left into Fred’s mid-section, bending him over, and finished him with left and right on the jaw. Probably the whole op- eration didn't take more than two ‘yeconds. But there was nothing ac- McCarty slam into tho big cowboy’s | | body without bringing his Jaw down again. jan inch, and McCarty was in a fury | because’ he was unable to reach Jess | Dempsey Like John L. ‘when Jess leaned back out of range. There's something about Dempsey Smith, MoMahon and others failed to | that reminds one of the great John hurt Jess with body blows, L, Sullivan, whose exploits are now But in the whole lot there probabl: traditions of the ring. Dempsey 8 wasn't one who could hit as bard A Curious thing—Walcott’s words over fan heli eiadiet eindennnaeee te THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1919, BODY BLOW MAY PROVE WINNER AGAIN Copyright, 1919, by tho F Whtarn Pores ais cain Bway = THiS MAY Gwe pevcey A CAMKE To USE A Bow BLOW. (The N 8 Publishing Co. SS Bown Tom REEULAI Mews HET... - ™ Schoolboys’ Swimming Meet The Public Schools Athletic League will conduct the third of a series of | for first | term high school students at the Co- | Seven eight dual swimming meets lumtia University pool to-day, schools hav: Stuyvesant Commerce . itt Clint Mant MICKEY DONLEY ‘SCORES entered teams, in whic each school will meet the other teams | | World head pin tournament at |night. No records only four of thep Ia getting within the entitles them to an Evening head pin medal. They were: Mr. the Nut Club No. White of the Nut Clib No were su h Mr. No. 6 ‘390; 1 awey from Moet 1 half of the heme.and-tene amuse 1 Thirteen teams rolled in The F ening Thum's White Elephant Bowling Academy last broken and | alien, weeded armed circle which in World Dieter 1, who rolled 101; ls 6, who ' y rolled an even 100; Mr. Sull of the Sano- cident! about the punch. Five min-| Soldier Kearns was a terrific | nce during the season. This necessi- | fic 'team, who rolled 106. and Mr. Base + utes after the fight Dempsey was Puncher and at his best when he | tates the holding of three meets each | of the Sano-Iaic No. 3 team, who rolled | . dressing (QUEht Willard. He hooked an awful saturday, These mects are held on The Origit t No. 1 team rolled ta@iing mo about it im Bis dressing right into Willard’s body, equarely jemmedutc time, starting at 13.30 na |{Re highest total “of the evening with room. “They said I couldn’t reach on the solar xus, and Jess only | behepele tied Bk ee | Other, vening were his Jaw pecause he was too tall for fared into a ‘temper and knocked | {ishing at 3 o'clock, ‘Tae manding | Pi {dent 1 Lae No a baal Miseay, (husninie Kearny out with a single right-hand | of the teams at present is as follows: | ki 2"\y rien a ned oe ta eety Raight” Bunch on the chin. T saw Luther| igh school Lost. Won. | Oru anddeey on omnes last nie) 6 lant might, Romer averaged 177 3-7 againet PS | Oi for Falcaro, cos at 18, Iss ‘ ig 1 Welling are to meet in a match o games, at the St. Nicolas Nicuolas Avenue, on Mart wich, | home Landoey beat Eddie Haggerty of Green. rond balf of a an) +, (be Academy aleve so ¢ oder night, and by 3 pin chainplomabin of ‘andl ineiden'ally added tank aoxnnt In the at remawied, CORN. & wok ™ broke even, radi” witning “f ws a differend tale when Haven, “an Lindeay nr re!” The worm: Landsay, "cbt is: average, 384. Tag 183, 300, 14," 20; avaraga, Connie in New. Begland, Lewin, the thew known man i n9 apring ‘dnicken by ans York Evening World.) Carpentier ‘All In’’ Now And Wilde Sure to Stop Lynch, Says Twyford Brooklyn Boxing Promoter and Jack McAuliffe, the Old Cham- pion, Return From France, Where They Have Been Putting on Shows, Under the Auspices of the Knights of Columbus, for the American Soldiers. By Alex. Sullivan. IMMY TWYFORD, the well-known J Brooklyn boxing promoter, and Jack McAuliffe, the only retired undefeated champion in the bistory of boxing, have returned from France, where they have been acting as taries for the Knights of Columbus for sever: McAuliffe declare that boxing is the biggest thing with the American sol-| diers. They say that the boys can't get too much of ft. Shows are being staged by the K, of C. everywhere the United States forces are located. A number of secretaries, headed by Alec | McLean, the old bike rider and boxing promoter; Billy Roche and Sam Fitz patrick were recently sent by Overseas “{letic games wero arranged for Commissioner Hearn of the K. of ©. to seo that plenty of boxing and ath De Mi ec “Don't Mpsey would stop him in jig time. ke O'Dowd challenged the French mpion, but nothéms came of it, think for @ minute that Car- pentier is going to come to America to box. t the pere- | afraid lhe months. Both Twyford and | wyige Those Frenchmen are wise birds hey'd?never risk the trip, unless y wot & million dollars. ‘They are that they would be framed w that wonderful boy, Jimmy , in action. He is the best little low I ever saw box and I think he Will surely stop Joe Lynch when they |clash late this month, Wilde could |whip most of our feathers with ease. He h stiff punch, especially his | K Thi Ing ft me the jump night ‘one-twe Jor jisn’ “You can't say too much and he is just as clever as n Driscoll, which is saying a lot, tit? about the of C's great work for the boys. ey have provided all kinds of sport- raphernalia for their amuse- and the secretaries are kept on and day looking after nt | the welfare of the boys.” Twyford w uld have stayed longer, A ee ve . bu h brother's death here com- the most remarkable knocker-out of Dempsoy with any kind of a punch | n| Army of Occupation in Germany |petied his return, Here ts the letter } thewe times, just ae Sullivan was Algo, Willard is older, has been living | KNOCKOUT IN A ROUND. Sia tis hae |, According to Jimmy Twyford, the| given Jimmy by Commissioner Ed- { thirty or forty years ao. He whine a soft life, and has been out of the | : tial, an for a tale famous French idol, Georges Carpen-}ward 1, Hearn of the K. of C.: nig. men in a round or two, just as ring—e 0 mb Wo the” thammniema’ i ini ear Mr ord ri doubt that Dempsey could fo on 4 All of this makes it possible tha Before a crowded louse here at Jimmy | The Grand Central thresman team tourme | ‘ he, nom | I don't think that Carpentier will |iiirn that the death of sour soled aed grand tour, as Sullivan did, meeting Dempscy's heavy body battering may |PeForest’s club, which was opened for | MDL" Worm Core Rowing: 80, 106. ever be right again, He had a fall out pels your immediate return to the the same kind of fighters Sullivan bring him down in rango ut last, ani | tle first timo, Mickey Donley, the clever | March ~o ae of an airship and he hasn't been able United State ee ee aia te ee wallioan’ thas D psey may De al toto do What | Newark Nght ‘ a quick |e mn ® to round himself into condition, A “Your services in the Dijon sector, Sullive t n ivan’s! others ne ould aia eatin to ac ; ; ing our athletla activities: on carly fighting ‘tratts, sheer confi- | find a new proposition in Willard) tor | srokeut over Young Gardner of A three weeks ago a big box Nreneuatry Meee AER Ree PAM Gs donee, speed and a terrific punch, Ho! Willard doesn't: bend over like’ the bales WHO Wes recently milstered out of was held in Paris for the be which you carried out your boxing js three inches taller than Sullivan) other tall men he hax fought, but | te service. Gardner was dropped In the | Scaas Peps | parrled Out. D was, and his weight is 195 pounds—| stands straight and leans back with- | first round for the count af nine from the wounded aeldiere Sad the orphans, | toatl neces HN Dane 28 ME which was Sullivan's at his best out moving his feet, to keep bh two le stoi Ww at which Carpentier was scheduled to fll! your place u_were always at- a nex hiss ep his jaw two le to the stomach, Whe ied oe Waceec aliens is Bure tendi to siness and conducted lake Dempey, Sullivan ied fin-| out of range. Willard is going. to | ar rshing right uppereut #ent him appear, He didn't show up—and I| yourself in a manner that not only is fights in a hurry e had find & new propositio: oh ie late SARE A 4 a ma Mi m 1 turious variation of the body blow | {c see aan lie ie a Dempsey to sleep, and it tov a hait hour to re- | 4K « think it was because ho can't train ifurnished a good example to the ol- 4 PLY atstcad auen hk Rubee] eine Let Bayer peri Ive him, The logel fans were so im- | jMfert ts poet iat es pa PEE igen sare pay mr plangy to Ret in shape to bo: diers in the sector where you oper. > paychological twist. Sullivan's namo | dynamite in it. pressed by Donley's showing that the | thre games 4 tthe Mth ot Mantrat Meal wares penniee a coe neat Used ie nie ; but it ms un a credit to the Carried such terror to many of his! It will bo an interosting moment|Management of the club arranged for Boerne ont "ana “nivtie| Weighs around the 190-pound notch ln Sh ead Go umbus, You certainly Opponents that they were inclined to) when they step out for the first|him to box Tommy Tuohey of Pa | ee with tee Tiere have my ‘Dost wi EEA over and try to ues a crouchite | me} @ firat | him te ‘ommy Tuohey of Paterson Mee |think there are any number of ‘ur Twyford is mighty proud that he “cover to k his heavy blows from! — here within a month, boys who'd take him. A fellow like! possesses this letter, and he also is landing. When this happened Jobn i |proud of the fact that Gen, Pershing I. used his “back ling punoh." He | Jgranted him a fifteen-minute inter- reached over and brought bis fore- FN view in Dijon regarding the holding arm, wrist and the side of his fist] | 0. ews lof boxing bouts and other athletic down ross their shoulderblades, | events fe h soldiers. A | This was usually a knockdown blow,| vis, bolde io we aan F " 1 SILT eaFIa A 7 , ; | Another letter that Twyford closely aoe ‘wes usually, & 1 tea Tawi \ bot r of the welter- | Ralsh Beaty, the _litwright of | ST. AUGUSTINE, Fin, March 15—| John J, McGraw wants Mike Gon- [play {Yale at New. Haven on Apri! $.| guards was given tim by dames Te dim Corbett wasn't noted for any | WelEne tile, will still engage in three | Monies: a. ee als monitor oil feue ta | Cuials of the Hast Coast championship! gales, one of the best catchers in the |®, date on, which Colum Telit ed | Fowlett, Colonel 24 Pioneer Infantry, Particular blow. He was a fast boxer|imore bouts this month. Monday night | sether battle et te Armory A, A, of Betas [cnet Augustine golf links resulted in! Notional League and now with St,|brought forth the espiunatioe that iis jt Dijon, Here is how the letter and when be won a fight jt was usu- tho mects Jack Britton for twelvelon March 23, Mls ofponent will be Jonany Ray, | AUKe Brady of Boston, who led the!) ois, ciark Griffith of the Washing. | Tele schedule was jn error. 5 ally through fast ruther than beavylrounds at the McKinney A, C. of |ihe Ugliterign of Mittduryh, who tas fomghi fC! from the start, finishing with al nla: © a age eee | “Mr. Jamos Twyford, Knights of Co- hitting. He used many body blows] < ae nad i aM ai) cae rd mw round of 6%, within one of on Club wants Davey Robertson. ST. LOL March 16.—~The St, Louls ous Secretary, Dijon, France: in the Sullivan fighi at New Orleans, Fhadaage ©, March 24 ho tackles Jack icmey Duuive end « a8 TOD. | enacg urse, held Ge how on the reserve liet of the Giants | Browns last night departed for San An- Hn eres Pearenes you have and they helped) to bring Sullivan| Perry of Pitusburgh for ten rounds at |" pow twelve sous # dosion, ee p Se ce ae lity; |f0n!o Tex. where on Monday they Will laccided to return to America on a down, (or old John L, was fat and all tne Duquesne Garten in Pittsburgh, | ak De Re, maichmance of de tong avd Branch Tokers af the Bt cove Cae, | Beater jaMeeks of, abring, tealning: |Oocnt or norsonal reascna that roauire om dissipation 3 Jat Portland, Me., tried to got Frankie Barns to ane icke 9 , re i io “gho most famous user of body [#84 March 3t he swaps punches with |‘, prasuic Brorn ot hu ct entender areie |ginala wants Dr. Jobe Lavan of shel forts wals tim Puonsiugle wii’ be ct [to say a word oF enresialion for the blows was Fitzsimmo He ed |S f , oughlin of Bouth Bethlehem | tut Burns woukl not tako (ho bout, as the time Sree arh ne i ig o Some shorten the camp for the opening workout. way you have handled the goneral sit Corbett at Carson with a “solar| for twelve rounds at Tulsa, Qkla, Was too short for lim to get into a De Rise PE uaicnahins Pd oa nee | S dijon, Your regular Wedn: plexus punch,” when ift-footed Sil geababls ware Wie Wie ot cllamana tee ‘|would be as happy as Benny Kauff Tube | Bauer Cn. Fuh aay er AN een ees Jim had been able to dodge about and| Jimmy Daffy, the west sido lightweight, has Praukie Brit of New Hedfond, | With 4 home run except for the villain * jadelphia | GAY even’! "this town, and T keep bis jaw out of range for fourteen | Just been mustered out of the army and te ready of the piece. Barney Dreyfuss, chief | ican League Club, has signed a (quite a feature in thi n, and oe oe RRS OF leo take on any of the guod «veo in bie class, |. Pete Hartley injurct bie arm mo badly in @ nud Jowner of the Pittsburgh Pirat contract io “niteh for the Minneapolis | elieve the American soldiers “have “ eee mies : tanit rawnily that is marmger, Lay Myno, was though # courses the said vill © too wants y| Club of the Americun Association, Joe ated the way you have con- Fitssimmons brought Gus Ruhiin | dieu: ed his hoooral ange papers on | Bt 4 a mr: le Eee, © }OUan que fe b id villain, He too wants Dav Cantillon, manager ef the Misneapalis hie de ah ah eanieht in’ this down to his height with a body punch, |savuniay and is doing me he) Ce Ot el SE ie ne ee Sek Bee ‘ stand and | oberon, ind Up to Now has re-| Club, announced to-day Your long experience in connec and whipped ey and NY | Placa imelt under ho mManagament of baldio | St Maltin hie ts Jersey. clashe fuxed to waive bim out of the Na- ar: Atal Nau , with Prankie of Now Balfont at 0 Hana Sane at he acai whic —_ tion with the boxing shows in others in th: way The bi Hane im be ed Ue y fi wi om’ May 6: We ‘ nal Leagu ust » which v eee Seer sia wane was, Te Blaser | Har et eu A esol ily oF ant tng iol sty has! been talked of fur several aye, (SEVERAL BOUTS PUT ON |¥!rk has proven invaluable to you in Fitgsimmons's boust. If old Bob was| ..0. y aul able to Cgut again Ln abet tie wes, Bey May 1, Westchester \ ornered, but with SU or a een eae ae coaching Dempsey now he'd laugh at |, tthe Matty Mare aca) featherweight, | 44 yranklo “2lud" ‘Mundy, tle Arvactee feraoy and jfouth Jorauy , ond not Pittsburgh, on | FOR HEROES AT CAMP MILLS] t wish vou the very best succnsa in ; asa nes manager, Iie is Lew Vigan, who alo island May 20. \) any venture that you may enter in the idea that Willard’s height Will Mh fie the attew of Whit I TVelo Hehe, | 408i, WOuld NOL train faithfully for ute he third corner opens the st i , he champioi | Rewdiee attaly of irensan @ Marly. | stich caused tim to be knocked out in his last “aptaina for the different sec Inder the on of Lieut. Dorsey, | the States Bree tne <pamplon great nody. {Matting Haba and Mervey Adaie, Fban tas | Mich ea be nd out in hie lat |, Captain the 4 nt An air of exprotancy was notice-|_ Under the direction of Lieut. Dorsey, oo nel wins af DOdY | signed uy Herter for tee fieuiee hla hae wien | #2 Figlla, hie manacee, Leo Powe, today tad | Have bee ih atl ee that y notice: | members of the Boxers’ Loy TAMSUA'. Saccmacectla WHEE Ai: Vasnataae, 4 never worried MbOUL BOY | wariie Daly of Staten Toland af the Aimericen | MUTE to get another 1 Monn laine) tatand; | Mr and. the erday, No more |last night went down to Camp Mills,! aye'\reehowell Bie Five will play the mandicap in height aaneY | a. A. of dlaltimore uo Merch ¢1 end & sons | 3 Ml ap a wone | Woodie, W ‘ ume in, and two or thre ineola, L, they put on sev- he ape id 8 Jack O'Brien's dancing ‘ Nay re Ma cy tor ge of Hackensa y f y aited by both clubs, 4 for the members | St. Veronica team, champions of Green- with Wid Me ' March a | i about the ring with rifle left mid Mommas 6) Mhiledeohle, Mark 2, | Violet: Miller i D Were being made for high usand | wich Village and lower New York, to- hook in t stomach—a punch that! frit Pawy Cline, «lo knocked out Prank t to world acked the UnILY | morrow afternoon. The teams are old sounded like throwing @ brick against |"Bud Muruhy of Syramme in one round et kA Put 3 Ww York's | rivals for basketball honors aimong the & Tans & After knockine | Montreal re wae Gaalched to-day to moot But tiie UR t callers, jon the | Catholic clubs of New York Cis. ‘The O'Brien « mere And | Jimmy the welterweaht of Lackix Abrat a favorent © buried y in time tables World, | Avonia Club and other villase anso- before . O'Brien was up N.Y, for ten row Olympic ALC, of figure n utes t Ip may be needed ed in a] ciations will be on hand to root for is toes, towering over Ketchel and | Monteal March 24, Oo Monday) nigh we to dig them out so that the players Noster, [thelr favorites. Dancing will precede he bext possible use of his lee } R F " w bs Accor to Mrs Thompson, | cun get on time next week. wand fe ow the sume, The AacDowall raat eight and rea 2 me rads ~ " a Secreta t oO ates {or t | Big Five have a few travel dates ope: adva tage in he ght ar I ree ot a be Canadian, for ea ; tthe A, A. [humerous day nts _for| , Donovan, Manager of ‘ery iy and would Uke to hear from out. of soba Jeffries 8 the hurde ar) Ireasuime of the T tat alver efore | the Je ‘ eam of the new Inter- Wil own teams 0 ood inducements, body Puncher In his time, Not ws : or x Secrelasy of Hox ago Ie wan decided to paid a tothe Johnny sammy | Address Joseph Walls, No, 125 East 47th hls height, he fought in a crouching | Mi lw @ Chicago heawwelg t Coponiager requesting him \ Champlonahin ae} Yeaterday ett Street, New York City position, from which it was casy ast bight for Witte we be will take an cain of Acner em to Sean how been detl- | in on and Menten Tene _— drive in a body blow. He br three , Ma ms st the Daqueene a to take part in mational amateur June 9 to re i, 1 anu High Schools in Princeton Meet, of Sharkey's ribs, ben. F nmons | dasien io tha ir nin 6 raments, 't astern “¢ ionshiy» | K cured in a doubl : i a ntere Aad dy blow in th nd fight |e ain be will oulwint his ruggel end weight e ant tehes for the Griscom | ed with Billy Walker Panam The ual F on Club's int Bnd hit Corbet ward that Corbett | 8 r : ; Apawamis, June | tamed ¢ Gleason, the 145-pound amas | achol rack and field char 4 mate 80 eae ae ‘ e | Yankees Louie White, son of}games for pub’ and privn aaa ned of his bent ribs f . a - ome | Bete ‘ $ a ley White, acted as|xchools will be conducted on afterward 2 trainer here, Champion | Ow at sim 1 hay N given two mont 1 the official referee noon, March 29. at th Kid McCoy, Tommy ty Sam | ard desiatee Ibe be aspens o' pre ; | fon eo ni turns to the Ha mn we | Rrinory: (Invitations Langford, Joe Gans and ali of the a Now York from California o ot with Matting Committ {the Metropolitan ree pli Brown Wins Easy Victory. jextended to fifty-four high : " Assovlation. there at uum- [Jersey City will be Jenter tear reat old-time champians stidied und! tonny eae that tie Bintiday te on O A. A. cf dorey UMy Heaite a LACUSE reh 15 blanks has * %) Her of clubs tn this diatciet ich ave e league race, SYRACUSE N.Y, Mare 1 mand for entry blanks ha med body biows to win their fights. 4 for (hat coason be wane to be home ia | Tumstay nig! oi Jennie, mamta ker not as yet sent in their reve The Vrankie B n hammered Young Mich-| whieh denotes that this year's chan Britt a oars Sebies. time to eelebrate the 4 Og a Parents, | the club, hae chow, but may jit it}jast notice has been despatchea to tha} Inquiries made aels of Syracuse all around the ring larger in point of num- an! ng Nelson, I'rank | Leovard was bora oo April 7. 1 us (wen Aide's salns tow on in govern weeks, Muster to stage & slow oy that Lidl, Jennings is undecided | delinquent day nest to make returns, ones, who have until Satur versity yesterday as to the announces last might and had him on the floor in ‘ment that Columbia was scheduled tol the last round of their ten-round bout, bere” will be. r of competing athletes than ever DEMPSEY HAS BODY PUNCH 4©=BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK NRS\IGHINAN CAPTURES TWO INDOOR TITLES Beats Marion Zinderstein for National Singles Honors and With This Star Wins Doubles, Mrs. George V Wightman won the national indoor wh tennis champlon« ship titles fn the singies und doubles on the courts of the ‘h Regiment Armory. In the fina! round of the ) Singles she defeated Mis Marion Zine derstein by a score of 2--H, 6-1, 64, and paired with Miss 7% nderstein im the doubles beat Mrs Albert Hum- |phreys and Miss Elizabetl) G. Holden of the New York Ter score of 6—1, 6—1. One Ione yictory, by the irony of fate the consolation singles, fell to the share of a New York player. In the final round of that event Mrs. Willam H. Pritchard defeated Miss Elizabeth G, Holden at 5—-7, 6—2, 6—-4 s Club by # ‘The triumph of Mrs. Wightman, who succeeds Miss Molla Bjurstedt as the national champion, was in @ way @ Hotable one. Thirteen years ago. Mra, Wightman, who was then Miss Hagel Hotchkiss, won the singles champlon- ship of California. 11 the years 1909, 1910 and 1911 she won the national title on the turf courts of Philadelphia Cricket Club. During tt me years, with famous partners, she won the doubles and mixed doubles. Thus, for the first time in tle history of the ‘game, a national champion has regained the crown of the courts after @ lapse of eight years. Mrs. Wightman resumed her activities on her remarkable p ranked No. The batt! veloped into a cont and brill met t season, and formance’ was for the singles title dee in which youth side of the net 1 by cool, calcus lati ‘and ability, 0 The iatter won, but ‘th brought all of Qualities in Mrs, Wightnan's game. In the first set Mrs. Wightman’ ate tempted to exchang drives with her us opponent, vd to strat- marked the rang a direct second of the ion. She the var played all over the ety of shots which Mrs. Wightman brought into ac had her young opponent drivi: ntly into the net. So ably did Mrs. Wightman con- duct her campaign of changing pace that she moved to a lead of 3-1 on games in the third set ‘There Miss Zinderstein made a stand, and by sheer grit und furiously driving across court und (o the base line won three games She threatened to take the fourth and carry the score to games-all. Mrs. Wightman was a bit breathless and apparently realized that 4 lengthen! set would spoil her chances, Five times the points touched deuce. Once, when Miss Zinderatein had the vantage point, Mrs. Wightman suddenly lobbed in the midst of a drlv- ing rally, with the result that the girl did not ‘check herself quickly enough but smashed into the her chances. ‘The final rally was typical of the ree markable court generalship displayed by the oldar player. The ball would be sent speeding across the net. Mrs. Wightman always placing so as to compel Miss Zin- derstein to take it on the run. Then Mrs, Wightman would send over a slower drive, deeply placed, and with under- spinon the ball. “The girl, in her eagerness, would miscalculate the shot, and her faulty return would land the ball in the net. Bea Wright, the former national champion, acted as ume net and so spolied pire of the match There was really not a strong element of competition in the final’ of the doubles. Mrs. Wightman and Miss Zine derstein ‘outclassed their opponents. They made the openings to overhand the ball through for the points. At the the Boston pair was irresistible. Mrs, Humphreys did well and she did not lose a service game. The mates was chiefly a Boston pro Dn, bows ever, and it made a fitting finale ta/ thelr day of sweeping victories om the\ courts, al Sport Briefs a net J. Maloney, the pocket billiards star of the Bronx, made a thrill finish to his match in the nator championship tour York Athletic Club uguinst Henry & Osborn They were tied ut 120 balla and again at 123, Maloney managed to make a long shot to the cornew pocket which gave him the oppore tunity to win at 125 to 123. Capte William A, Tilt, erly of the Avie nt ut the New 1 orn ation Corps, won the night mateh, i hich he defeated Henry &. Osborne, he final tally was 125 balls to 1b. NEW HAVEN, Conn, March Mme Yale's relay team brok world’ record in the 20 yard relay race with, Columbia here “Tis lowering the jformer mark of im. 4 > im. Ada, {The Blue switr uleo elo: ite ninth straight wnplome hip by whipping A, Ui Lo My Although the Columbir varsity ere has received invitations to row #@UIDsB both Yale and Harvard inderstood. that the Blue and Wile authorries have decided nm ther bid, ard want 1 Journ ‘ambridge f y May » Yale was | have t guide arsnien the nie cou at Derby on May 10 hird crew in tho Yale-Princetom on that date wenaat of 1 es | RACING SELECTIONS. NEW ORLEANS. First Gu 4, Uleaster, Canvas Second | hace Langden, True as Stee Third ce Sophie Gatewood, Luther, Edith Bauman Fourth ‘I Kildare Loy, Mure phy, Charley Leydecke Fitth Race-Dan Wright, Bolster, Waukown Sixth Race-Gordon Roberts, Ine Neventh Race—Slecth, Ballad, Ate hens —_—_———— BOWLING AND BILLIARDS, een BOWLERS’ JOURN eheta; acore she \ \THUM }; | Corde Stein’ Ai inna 0) Wi. without « a Minerale ial A